Something has been troubling my mind since the results of the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination – KSCE were released last year. Why did two girls’ schools that we had empowered in 2020 just before the advent of the coronavirus virus pandemic performing poorly in comparison to those of boys particularly?
In fact, we were late last year recalled to one of the boys’ school for a second seminar of all students. The mean grade of the school had shot from 5.0 to 5.5 in the 2020 EXAMS. Also, students qualifying to join University had increased from 34 to 50 ( 32% improvement).
So, revelations upon making enquiries of what could have happened in one of the two girls’ school, situated in Tharaka Nthi that we bumped into this week, were quite perplexing. The findings may seem to be obvious, but nevertheless of great concern to all educational stakeholders.
First, we all need to realize that after the coronavirus pandemic set in, the girl students became variously vulnerable to the extent that they completely lost focus on their studies. Second, the school like many others didn’t have any strategy of engaging their students during the whole 10 months forced break.
Thirdly, psychology indicates that women are attracted to men through emotional feelings, whereas men are attracted by what they physically observe regarding women. This means that women’s hearts are easily snatched away by the men in their relationships. Could the same have happened to our girl students during the coronavirus pandemic oriented break?
Definitely, many girls were in school minus their hearts, therefore poor concentration leading to poor performance. Fourthly, the girls became vunerable to negative social influences, some of which affected their lifetimes for good. Indeed, some became expectant and were to be mothers before finishing school.
Others ventured into early marriages and any consideration about education became irrelevant. All those experiences naturally impacted on the girls who were left soldiering on with studies. That is why numerous schools engaged counselling psychologists as a means of re-aligning the normalcy of our feminine future leaders with regard to desirable empowerment track.
Majority of the girls were able to regain focus and performed well in the last KCSE exams. Others affected by the experiences occasioned by the impact of coronavirus pandemic are still in the recovery mode.
As such, let us all realize that our feminine future leaders can still be quite vunerable in the event of any unforseen circumstances. Efforts of safeguarding these future leaders should be in the best interest of all stakeholders of the education system and the society as well, isn’t it?
Rgds
Mwangi Wanjumbi (MKIM)
Personal Empowerment Coach
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Competency Based Curriculum-CBC Architect
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